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Slippery Slope
Logical fallacyClaiming that one step must lead to an extreme outcome without showing why each step in the chain follows from the one before it.
An everyday example
“If we let staff work from home one day a week, nobody will ever come to the office again.”
The same move in this debate
“If we give cows legal protection, we'll end up prosecuting cats for killing mice.”